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May 25, 1907.] 
over unto you and your heirs and assigns for¬ 
ever all that which my heirs might have had had 
j you and I not needed it. 
William Lambert Barnard. 
Two Months in the West Indies. 
(Concluded fro)>i page 788 .) 
St. Lucia, to the south, was next visited where 
coal was taken aboard by negro women in huge 
i baskets carried on their heads. After visiting 
Fort Vieux Bay, at the extreme southwest end 
of the island, a start was made at 9 P. M. for 
; Barbadoes Island out to the eastward. Here 
1 the yacht received her roughest handling by the 
seas and was tossed about considerably, but by 
daybreak next morning was in smooth water in 
the lea of the island, and here at Bridgetown, 
Barbadoes Island, nine davs were spent in ex¬ 
cursions inland, in dragging with the nets, in 
circumnavigating the island at close range to 
get a series of photographs of the shore's ap¬ 
pearance, etc. 
After this long stop a night run was made back 
to Kingston, island of St. Vincent, and the next 
day the yacht started south for Grenada. The 
Grenadines, that chain of islands and inlets all 
the way to Grenada, proved well worth seeing 
j at close range. They are seldom visited by 
| yachtsmen, so are little known or talked of. 
Some of these are quite thickly populated. On 
some a remnant of the Carib Indians in a settle¬ 
ment on the hillside made a very pretty picture 
as the yacht passed by. ' Carriacou Island is very 
prosperous looking with fine roads and good 
houses to be seen all over the island, yet it 
is almost unknown to outsiders. 
Grenada was reached in the early afternoon 
and in time for a short walk ashore before din¬ 
ner. But all ideas of a stay here were quickly 
dispelled when news was brought from the 
health.authorities that a case of sickness at the 
hotel in town had been diagnosed as yellow 
fever. So steam was gotten up and Grenada 
left far astern, and St. Lucia was revisited for 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
coal and another short stop. Leaving the fol¬ 
lowing morning for St. Rupert’s Bay, Dominica, 
a return was made to Basse Terre, St. Kitts, to 
complete some work left unfinished by the pro¬ 
fessor. Redonda’s only product is phosphate 
rocks which is very abundant, but as there are 
no harbors, vessels have to lie under the lea 
of the island and the phosphate is sent down on 
wire cables set taut to anchors out in the sea. 
whaler greyhound at barbadoes. 
Out four years on a cruise. 
It is then taken in small boats and lightered 
from the baskets on the wire cables and trans¬ 
ferred to the loading vessels. 
From here the run was made to St. Thomas 
where, after coaling up, she steamed away for 
Ponce on the south side of the island of Porto 
Rico. Off Crab Island the deep water drag net 
was again used. A delay was caused at Ponce 
by the health authorities, the first delay of this 
kind on the trip. The doctor being away, the 
customs collector had to telephone him and the 
yacht had to await his arrival, SO’ no communi¬ 
cation could be had with the shore that night. 
The next day was a half holiday and little work 
was done, though a bill of health was secured 
and on Good Friday the yacht sailed for San¬ 
tiago de Cuba, intending to pass close by Mona 
and Navassa islands on the way. 
Upon reaching Mona Island it was found so 
very interesting the professor decided to stay 
there all night, and then next day photographs 
were taken and the immense caves to be seen 
all around the island were admired. A drag 
was made here and several additions made to 
the collection for the museum at Cambridge. 
The yacht was anchored close in under the lea 
as a heavy norther was blowing and within a 
quarter of a mile of a stranded bark that had 
evidently been there many years. She was 
visited next morning and found to be in fairly good 
condition, no holes in the bottom to be seen, 
but as the tide ebbed and flowed in her there 
must have been some hole through which it and 
all the fish made their way. 
At noon a start was made for the south coast 
of San Domingo along which the water was 
smooth all day and all that night, and at day¬ 
light next morning she was off the west end of 
Hayti and at seven started for the island of 
Navassa which was reached at 9:30 A. M.. This 
lone island was found deserted by its owners 
and all the buildings gone to ruin. A small fish¬ 
ing schooner from Nassau, New Providence, 
with a large crew, was off the island engaged 
in catching porpoises. The island was photo¬ 
graphed and then the yacht sailed for Guanta¬ 
namo, Cuba, reaching there at 8 o’clock the 
same evening. 
A trip to Cape Maysi for photographs was 
made next day, returning to Guantanamo for the 
night. Santiago was reached next afternoon 
after an easy run, when cameras and deep sea 
nets were kept busy. It had been planned to 
go from here to the Cayman Islands and thence 
to Key West, but a cable message changed all 
the plans, and after a slow coaling up- job, the 
Virginia left Santiago at daylight, April 5, and 
reached Charleston bar at noon on April 9. 
Boy Divers, Port Castries, St. Lucia. 
Landing Place at Bridgetown, Barbadoes. 
Wreck on Mona Island. 
Point a Pitre, Guadaloupe Island. 
Virginia in St. George Harbor, Grenada. 
The two Pitons, St- Lucia Island. 
Orangetown, St. Eustatia Island. 
Redonda from the South. 
Old Martetto Tower—Barbuda. 
